When your Outlook 2007 mail message text is larger or small than usual…

It sometimes happened to me that when I am composing a new mail, suddenly the while message font is became large and I don't know what I had pressed any key to let it happen. today it happened again and I decide to find the cause of it!

after a search of hotkeys in Outlook 2007 help file, found the answer...

When you compose, reply to, or forward an e-mail message, and the message body (including the text) appears larger or smaller than the size that you typically see, you might have accidentally changed the zoom view setting.

When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

Note The zoom view setting doesn't affect how recipients will see the message. Messages are always opened at 100-percent zoom view size.

You can adjust the zoom view in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 in two ways — by using your mouse wheel button, or from within Outlook itself.

Use a mouse wheel button to change the zoom

If you have a pointing device, such as the Microsoft IntelliMouse pointing device, that has a wheel button, you can use the wheel button to zoom in on, or out of, the body of a message.

Click the message body.

Press or hold CTRL while you rotate the wheel button to zoom in or out.

Use the Ribbon controls to change the zoom

The zoom level of the message view can be changed in the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

Click the message body.

On the Format tab, in the Zoom group, click Zoom.

In the Zoom dialog box, under Zoom to, click 100% for the default size, or use the other options to specify a custom zoom size.

Note When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

So the reason why it was happened on me is that when I type fast and using my mouse around my messages, suddenly I moved the mouse scroll wheel while I was pressing the Ctrl key trying to copy (Ctrl-C) or paste (Ctrl-V) some paragraph.

All of a sudden, this setting keeps changing itself to 130%. I open a new message, click in the text box, choose the format text ribbon, click zoom, change the value to 100, click ok. Type and send the message.

Now, if I click a new message again, sometimes it stays on 100%. But if I close/reopen Outlook, it will be back to 130.

Many thanks for this. I too must have accidently done the hold down ctrl while moving the mouse scroll wheel. My IT department could not solve this for over 2 weeks. I solved it within 30 seconds after I found your site

Thanks for the tip. I was floundering around default styles, themes, fonts, and other areas after thinking I knew what the problem was after being misled by an options setting. Changing the zoom is so simple.

Thank you, I managed to shrink my view to 10% by the CTRL + mouse wheel action, I am glad I searched for a solution and found your post. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what I did to zoom out my sent mails. Was able to fix it in seconds once I read your post. Cheers!

Thanks God!! My email was created by my IT,the view get too big since then! ..even he cant do anything to make it small..really pissed me,it annoy when the "kind regards with thanks" filled 70% of the view in 0ne row!! and i need to scroll lots to read the whole mail! Lucky i found this blog..Thanks a lot REX TANG..hope to treat u a Baskin Robbins! (^^,)

TY So Greatful For Your POST Rex Tang!!!! 😀 My text went so tiny I had pressed two keys without meaning to and not knowing what I pressed while composing a reply to an email. Your comment fixed My issue immediately! Yes! Your post in 2007 is on my Birthday 😀 So TY for this Gift. I would of suffered tiresly had I not typed into microsoft search for the answer. & Was I saved from Your Research, kindness & effort to help us all here with this very Important part of our lives when it comes to email communication; which is HUGE in Many of Our lives!!! You are Defineatly A True Hero! Abundant Blessings~ Love & Peace.